Yeah but like, quite literally my library had encyclopedias that were just wrong. Like I knew then they were wrong. Its wasn't a good thing.

I see you study socks in sandals style..

Yeah but we didn't necessarily have that book. And also, you had to know which book. So first you had to find a book that could tell you what kind of book to look in. And if you just didn't know how or where to ask the question, well. That was that.

And actually a lot of the books were just wrong but because those were the only books we had, welp. You just learned it wrong.

I would watch tf out of this isekai

I mean thats a great consideration. Luckily for me, I'm more on the pure computation/ analysis side of the house. I don't really do wet chemistry any more, although my partner does.

It’s not a racial slur. It’s just what they use for someone that isn’t family.

I mean it definitely can be. I mean, fuck, my best friend Kai (who is 100% Hawaiian, from a well known Hawaiian family) just about beat the shit out of another mutual friend (who is also Hawaiian) when he was was joking about his kid gonna catch diseases from the haole he was standing next to (me). Friend maybe meant it as a joke, but Kai sure af took it seriously enough to scrap.

But I've also had another neighbor tell me "Oh you don' worry nephew, you da' good kinna haole", and mean it.

So it depends. It depends how you say it and what context.

Ken Klippenstein is a gem.

Yeah well, Mexico is #1 on this list. I don't even see the US on the list.

why we aren’t more open to separating the work from the artist

Because we shouldn't?

We shouldn't support pieces of shit. Not with our eyes. Not with our ears. Not with our dollars or our attention. Its not like there aren't hundreds of thousands of other hilarious people who aren't pieces of shit. Its not like we don't have literally PLENTY of other options.

Brazil is in the conversations. Mainly for professional reasons and because they do still invest in the kinds of science that my partner and I do, and I have many colleagues there and some family near Rio.

The other is Tahiti, because I've got a pretty substantial Vanilla production operation going at this point, which was kind-of the entire point of why I moved to where I did. I also have access to EU citizenship through my mother, and I as far as a visa to live and work in the country, I think that part should be straight forwards since its basically France. My partner and I also have some connections to the university, University of French Polynesia. My partner has also previously worked for CNRS in Toulouse, although briefly. Buying land might be out of reach because its ridiculously expensive, but I can imagine various ways of making it happen.

We're seriously considering some option at this point, but its very tough because we moved to where we live because this is where we wanted to live. We've also got a wide range of "things" going on that are difficult, but not impossible, to disentangle ourselves from.

Ugh, I wish this guy wasn't so problematic. I really did enjoy his off hand type of humor.

I don’t Mexico to sell chocolate

Well I do Mexico to sell chocolate.

Comedy aside, I think its to address the extraordinary obesity issues that Mexico has faced in the past 20 years. Mexico is in my top 2 of countries I'm moving to as the US collapses, but they have real issues with refined foods and especially added sugar.